Call It a Day: 6 Clichés to Keep or Cast Off

Orin Hargraves’s new book charts the tricky world of clichés – and we’ve got some follow-up recommendations.(READ MORE)

Finding Novels Everywhere: Katie Crouch on a Summer Abroad

For our That Summer series, Katie Crouch remembers the summer a lost dog inspired her to write a novel.(READ MORE)

Magic, Explained: Amanda Vaill’s Summer at the Public Library

For Biographile'sThat Summer series, Amanda Vaill remembers her first job out of college, working as the assistant to one of The New Yorker’s staff writers.(READ MORE)

The Birth of a Writer in Paris, by Jen Doll

For Biographile’s That Summer series, 'Save the Date' author Jen Doll looks back to a post-high school summer during which she learned the importance of continued writing.(READ MORE)

From Bookstore to Garret: Lessons from an Author

Thomas Shawver was inspired in the mid-nineties to leave the land of Big Brother and buy a bookstore – and used the inspiration therein to form his debut mystery novel.(READ MORE)

5 Memoirs that Shaped Writer Gail Caldwell

Gail Caldwell, author of the brand-new memoir New Life, No Instructions, shares with us five memoirs that helped her become the writer she is today.(READ MORE)

9 Flannery O’Connor Quotes for the Dogged Writer in Us All

This week in history, renowned author and essayist Flannery O'Connor was born. She would go on to shape the landscape of short story writing, with favorites like A Good Man is Hard to Find.(READ MORE)

A Note From Your Inner Amazon, by Anne Fortier

Most people, apparently, find it utterly unrealistic that a group of women – now as in the past – would choose to live together in a small, closed society without men.(READ MORE)

Synesthesia and the Seeds of a Novel, by Therese Walsh

'My new novel, The Moon Sisters, had an interesting beginning, inspired by real people and their exceptional senses.'(READ MORE)

At the Intersection of Fiction and Life: Creating Keye Street

Novelist Amanda Kyle Williams stopped by Biographile to talk about how life informs fiction.(READ MORE)

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